Quoting: GuestWhy would anyone care about a new gaming store? They won't be able to compete with steam anyway. And for us - linux gamers - epic doesn't exist.

You can't take it lightly because of Tencent. What if, for example, games like RDR2 appear exclusively in the Epic Store in the future? That can grow into a competition. And yes, we no longer play a role in the Epic Store. Right now it's all on Steam and if RDR2 will be released there, we could probably play it on Proton at some point.

Valve is not listed on the stock exchange. They have a lot of money, but big companies like Tencent have a lot more. Valve has already ruled by lowering prices for top sellers. Epic can be much more generous:

https://www.pcgamer.com/epics-tim-sweeney-reveals-how-the-company-lands-exclusives-for-the-epic-store/ [External Link]

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Quoting: NeverthelessHere's Tim Sweeneys definition of "Open Platform" and "Open System".

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1078746920082903040 [External Link]

The definition is correct and also corresponds to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform [External Link]

One should not forget that Linux has only a very small user base. The fact that Valve as a large publisher supports Linux so intensively is something special. Just as Valve is perhaps something special.

Linux is very dominant in the server sector. But if you thought that Epic would be the big breakthrough for the Linux-Desktop, you are mistaken. Epic and Tencent follow a completely different philosophy than we do. Things should be open to them, not open to others (for example their customers). That's the small but subtle difference when Sweeney speaks of "open".

And Epic also has no problem with closed platforms. Otherwise they wouldn't have released Fortnite on PS4. Epic is all about money. Directly and quite bluntly. They don't want to explore anything like Valve. They just want to use the research results when the money comes. :)

Also Fortnite itself is in large parts nothing else than a new edition of TF2. They copied the gameplay of PUBG and mixed it with the style of TF2. Tencent is a large Chinese company. What can we expect? Copying, copying, copying, from all who are open to it. ;)

There is a lot of controversy about the dances. Interesting that Valve (as always) has nothing to say about it. But have a look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=munG3VIye6s [External Link]

Epic makes a good game engine. Nothing more to say.

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Recap: Last year at this time of year, Wine Staging was broken. At the same time Wine 3.0 was missing an important patch for Doom. Meanwhile Doom is officially supported by Steam via Proton. In the past year a lot has happened around Wine. :)

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So Epic might allow us to give them our money? <3

I hope they bring Fortnite for Linux. Especially kids like that. Canadian children, too.

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As I've often written here. I think streaming is the deeper reason why Valve is into Linux. Valves streaming platform will be called Steam Play. Maybe they will cooperate with Google. Similar to Netflix and Amazon. Maybe they already do in the background.

Unfortunately, Valve is the only big publisher that also has a real heart for the Linux desktop. Fortunately, they own the biggest marketplace for PC games.

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Quoting: rick4003dddThanks,
i have seen this video days ago but i don't undestrand how to install this game with DXVK.
I have to use lutris? any help?

Yes, Lutris is the easiest. But MXGP3 doesn't have an installer yet.

https://lutris.net/games/mxgp3-the-official-motocross-videogame/ [External Link]

It would be more than helpful if you could tell Proton not to use the native Linux build of a particular game. There are just too many bad ports. Not least thanks to Apple and their outdated OpenGL version, which many porters stick to when porting to Linux and MacOS.

Meanwhile it would certainly be better in many cases if the porters would simply use DXVK instead of their self-written OpenGL rendering processes. Or support official Proton. There are a number of excellent OpenGL ports. But unfortunately also a lot of dysfunctional garbage, missing features and and eternal bugs. For example Ark will probably never see a clean Linux port.

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Quoting: XpanderDoesn't work for me sadly :(

https://steamcommunity.com/app/561600/discussions/0/1741100729952845904/ [External Link]

Thanks for testing. Let's see if it can be fixed quickly.

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Can you play it with children or is it too complicated for that? The little dragons should please children very well.

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Linux has become a kind of demilitarized zone. I think Linux is still better for Microsoft than Fuchsia. Its license and publishing policy may change at any time, just like that of Apple's Darwin. For example, until last year Apple had not released the kernels for iOS as open source. Such tricks do not work with Linux, because the whole kernel is under the GPL.

Apart from that, Microsoft uses Linux very intensively in its cloud. Their cloud switches run on Linux.

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It will be interesting to see how long Valve can keep the train going for CS:GO, there's probably a good few years of life left in it considering it's constantly in the top most played games on Steam. It did have a big dip in the player count starting around March/April, but it looks like it's rebounding now.

Valve supports their games forever I think. See TF2 or L4D2. And there is a loyal community even for the old titles. I just started CSGO a year ago. Now it's my favorite game. Once you're gripped, it's hard to stop.

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